A friend introduced me to a blog a few months ago called Attic 24 and I find it so inspiring. Her house is so beautiful and can't be more than an hour from here, I'd recognise a Yorkshire stone terrace of houses and those beautiful hills a mile off! She crochets some amazing things and has 3 wonderful children. Her life clearly revolves around ( Read more... )

So I checked the status of my order on Amazon... and it says delivered... Odd that since it's not at my house, and no card was on the mat when I got home. Signed for by someone called Mountain... whoever that may be. And if it was one of the neighbours (that I don't really know) why haven't they knocked on to give it to me? I've checked the back ( Read more... )

I went into work half an hour early (I arrived at 7.45!!!) on Tuesday to explain the StudentOfDoom situation to Phil. He spent the morning trying to contact the University, but her tutor was already out on placement visits. We left a message and in the afternoon I took StudentOfDoom up to Phil's office to discuss the issues arising from Friday ( Read more... )

Well she has finally done it... I think what happened on Friday was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I observed the StudentOfDoom's lesson on Friday, and it went ok. Nothing amazing, even though she was doing alkali metals . She finds it difficult to question the kids and get them interested, so when she threw the sodium in and nothing much ( Read more... )

You probably aren't interested, but I changed my LJ layout... the other one didn't look good with my new mega monitor (it was stretched funny) so I chose a freebie one with chickens on. I've also cleaned out all my tags. Looking good ( Read more... )

Arrrrrghhhh... Isn't it time for me to have a period yet? Its three weeks tomorrow since I took the last pill... and I'm not sure I can deal with this PMT for much longer. I never though I'd say that I was wanting to get those familiar killer pains! Eh well ( Read more... )

I just noticed on the featured communities this...

can_i_eat_thisSay you opened a jar of spaghetti sauce in November and you're wondering now if it's okay to eat it without getting sick. This community is ready for all your food safety questions, as long as you take the answers with a grain of salt ( Read more... )

Camp was ace... but it rained and the food was crappy... but everyone had a nice time and in the words of the DC... "The whole weekend went without a hiccup" Well, it didn't but we fixed everything before he noticed, because we rock so much. So thats another badge for my Nekker... Centenary Camps ( Read more... )